How to Conduct Surveys 7/e

Arlene Fink (PhD) is Professor of Medicine and Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles, and president of the Langley Research Institute. Her main interests include evaluation and survey research and the conduct of research literature reviews as well as the evaluation of their quality. Dr. Fink has conducted scores of evaluation studies in public health, medicine, and education. She is on the faculty of UCLA's Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program and is a scientific and evaluation advisor to UCLA's Gambling Studies and IMPACT (Improving Access, Counseling & Treatment for Californians with Prostate Cancer) programs. She consults nationally and internationally for agencies such as L'institut de Promotion del la Prevention Secondaire en Addictologie (IPPSA) in Paris, France, and Peninsula Health in Victoria, Australia. Professor Fink has taught and lectured extensively all over the world and is the author of more than 130 peer-reviewed articles and 15 textbooks.

Preface About the Author Chapter 1. Conducting Surveys: Everyone Is Doing It Chapter 2. The Survey Form: Questions, Scales, and Appearance Chapter 3. Getting It Together: Some Practical Concerns Chapter 4. Sampling Chapter 5. Survey Design: Environmental Control Chapter 6. Analyzing and Organizing Data From Surveys Chapter 7. Presenting the Survey Results Index